Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 4, Week 50 (300 total reports)
11.03.2026-17.03.2026
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dr. Jerry Goebel
Let’s keep our eye on the ball. The release of the Epstein files will bring this administration and those Pedophile Protectors surrounding him down. That’s why they (not just ‘he’) are working so hard to distract us. Release the files!
Visual Stories!
This week’s Blues/Rap song focuses on the Pedo-in-Chief and reminds him, “We Will Not Forget.” https://youtu.be/Z0Xt8Ch4aaI?si=okNFBWjRDIlcFb5i
Top Links of the Week
17.03.2026
How Trump's Treasury is shifting sanctions to punish his critics and reward friends
This NPR article by staff writers, Chiara Eisner and Robert Benincasa, reminds us, once again, how small a human, Donald T.R.U.M.P., is.There seems to be no tool too sacred for him to not turn into a weapon of revenge, and just as he is using the Department of Justice to seek revenge on those who annoyed him, the Department of “War” to attack those who stood in his way, he is now using the Department of Treasury to attack those who have stood against him. That includes people internationally as well as companies internally. This president will get his revenge. Sadly, the more decrepit he becomes (and closer to his physical or political demise), the more revenge is important to him. This administration has been chastised by the ICC (International Criminal Court), by the U.N. and even by the Nobel Prize committee, but it only seems to add fuel to his fire. One can only imagine those surrounding him at Cabinet meetings seeking his favor by telling him what a great human being he is, all the while enabling him to commit continually worse atrocities.
16.03.2026
Trump Has Replaced International Law With the Rule That Might Makes Right
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-might-makes-right?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=other
Walden Bello received the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize, in 2003, and was named Outstanding Public Scholar of the International Studies Association in 2008. He is well-positioned to write and speak to this subject of how world politics has disintegrated under Donald T.R.U.M.P.’s administration and with the onset of practices designed by Project 2025. Citing Prime Minister Mark Carney, Bello tells us that T.R.U.M.P. has foregone the United Nations and supplanted it with a “Might Makes Right” strategy. Also, like Carney, the professor and author reminds us that our only hopeful path lies in resistance. That is true globally as well as individually. What can you do today that will resist the continued power-grabbing of the madman in the Mar-a-Lago? Intentional actions, big and small, make a difference. Writing your senator to protest the SAVE ACT, or supporting someone you know who is assertively protesting this administration, all make a difference. As the Obamas like to remind us, “Don’t just boo, do something!”
Trump keeps asking Americans to sacrifice — for things they don’t want
Aaron Blake of CNN Politics asks us if we are feeling a bit of déjà vu this week, with this administration’s admonishment that we should all expect to embrace short-term pain for long-term gain. He suggests that we might have heard this before, like during COVID, like during the tariffs, and like now during the Iran War (er… Operation Fury, er… “Short-Term Excursion”, er... “Massive and Ongoing Operation,” er… “Campaign for Iran Liberation,” apparently, we haven’t settled on a name yet, because we haven’t settled on a mission). When this “action” started, oil was around $60 per barrel; now it is just over $100, and some analysts say it could go as high as $200. So, we are being asked to “tighten our belts.” Meanwhile, the “Department of War” is certainly not tightening its belts. Over the last month, Daily Kos writer, Oliver Willis, tells us that, “Hegseth has also presided over an internal spending spree at the Pentagon. Newly released reports of expenditures showed the purchase of a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano, $60,000 for Herman Miller recliner chairs, $124,000 for ice cream machines, and $139,224 on 272 orders of doughnuts.” This weekend, the president is flying down to his Pedo-Castle on the sea, Mar-a-Lago, for another round of golf with his billionaire supporters. If you weren’t invited, just think of it as another opportunity to experience “short-term pain.”
12.03.2026
Dario Amodei’s Oppenheimer Moment
Ross Anderson of The Atlantic compares this moment in our history to the precipice the world faced when Julius Robert Oppenheimer completed his work on the atomic bomb in 1945. Anderson points out the ethical dilemma Oppenheimer faced as he proverbially “turned over the keys” of the bomb to the Truman Administration. The columnist discusses the 15,000-word manifesto developed by Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, entitled, “Machines of Loving Grace.” He also reviews the (what now might be considered naiveté) of the scientists of Oppenheimer’s time as they dreamt about the positive applications of atomic energy for world peace and economic development. Few of those many ideas saw any relevant development, while the destructive force of atomic energy was deployed twice against Japan. Now, instead of Truman, we have world leaders like Putin, Netanyahu, and T.R.U.M.P. vying to decide how AI and nuclear energy will be used—for or against humanity. I agree with Mr. Anderson that we are teetering on a critical “Oppenheimer Moment,” and need to make our voices heard in this debate. Use your choices to support Anthropic. I know many are against the use of AI, for multiple reasons, but that is similar to being against the use of atomic energy in the time of Oppenheimer. Ceding your opinion is allowing others to use it. Others like those named above. Others like Pete Hegseth and this administration. Like Tom Homan and the MAGA Republicans already supplying Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses to ICE for use in facial recognition and unlawful civilian surveillance.
11.03.2026
Trump Can’t Decide Whether the Iran War Is Still Going On
This article by David A. Graham of The Atlantic takes us to a very dangerous place: the mind of this President as he tries to explain the Iran war to the press. Graham points out, “Reporters at the press conference, perplexed, asked Trump about the gap. ‘You said the war is ‘very complete,’ but your defense secretary says this is just the beginning, so which is it?’” T.R.U.M.P.’s response? “Well, I think you could say both.” With oil prices skyrocketing and tankers jammed in the Persian Gulf, T.R.U.M.P. appeared to blame price hikes on oil companies. As Graham points out, he “… even called on oil-tanker captains to ‘show some guts’ and sail through the contested Strait of Hormuz, according to Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade, though he hasn’t volunteered to personally dodge Iranian missiles aboard a floating makeshift bomb.” As frequently the case with this administration, chaos and confusion reign. Graham cites reporting by his others at The Atlantic: “As my colleagues Marie-Rose Sheinerman and Isabel Ruehl reported last week, Trump offered 10 different rationales for the war in its first six days alone.” The bottom line is that every day brings new lies by this administration. Graham explains the rationale (although I hesitate to ever use any word relating to “rational” with this circus of miscreants): “The problem is that Trump wants to operate with complete freedom from any restrictions and without waiting for advisers’ input. Asked when the war would completely end, T.R.U.M.P. told CBS, ‘Wrapping up is all in my mind, nobody else’s.’ That’s not very reassuring, for stock markets or anyone else.”
